Little Free Rock - Time Is of No Consequenc (Reissue) (1969-71/1991)

This is a collection of demos and unreleased tracks by a British hard rock trio that recorded a self-titled album in 1969, some of the cuts recorded at the point when the band was evolving from their prior incarnation, Purple Haze, into Little Free Rock. On these recordings, the band plays bluesy hard rock of the school founded by Cream and Fleetwood Mac, using African-influenced percussive grooves at times. Sure, the playing is competent, but in a scene with as much blues-rock talent as Britain had in the late '60s, you needed more than that to stand out from the crowd. And Little Free Rock didn't have it here, with repetitious songs that sometimes sounded more like sketchy throwaways than fully formed ideas, sometimes with little more apparent thought than supplying a "let's get it on" vibe. The fans-only nature of this compilation is compounded by multiple versions of some of the tracks, including three of "Evil Woman," though at least the different versions are spaced out throughout the disc to avoid immediate redundancy.